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indenting

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present participle of indent

as in notching

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Butternut squash works as a stand-in for canned pumpkin too, since the squash varieties used in most US brands are closer to butternut than to carving pumpkins.

— Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026
Tight ends are being underutilized While the league has been carving Miami up with tight ends, the Dolphins have been ignoring their own for most of the season.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2026

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Michael Goessling remembers being eight years old and grooving to The Doobie Brothers.

— Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
On Labor Day 2025, Zohran Kwame Mamdani enjoyed Brooklyn’s West Indian American Day Parade, grooving on various floats as an assemblyman representing Astoria, Queens.

— Reshma B, VIBE.com, 7 Sep. 2026

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Related Articles Her toolkit included Oligio monopolar radiofrequency for tightening and refining texture, InMode bipolar radiofrequency, and Sofwave for lifting and sculpting the face, neck and body.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
Limestone bluffs, dramatic plaza entrances Notable, construction will include digging a 90-foot hole and sculpting the stadium site out of the ground’s limestone.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026

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Visions, enhanced with shadows and emotion, came to life on marble through sketching the stone and chiseling and carving entirely by hand.

— Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026
The religious men took up residence among the locals—people who spent their days tending cows and sheep, churning butter, weeding onions and turnips, scouring the forests for mushrooms, and chiseling sculptures from the local limestone.

— CBS News, CBS News, 1 May 2026

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Health Minister Muhammad Pate said authorities had begun tracing 44 people identified as contacts of the patient.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
These games are also lighter in terms of ray-tracing demands, running on the first versions of the technology, which were widely toggleable and focused on more realistic reflections and shadows.

— Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2026

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